I just remember Mike Ditka saying on ESPN radio that if he had accepted the Illinois (R) party's request to run, we would have never even heard of B. Hussein Obama.
Ditka should’ve run, we were all prepared to support him. Of course, had the crooked RINO Establishment (the GOP wing of the Combine) not kneecapped Pete Fitzgerald, the best Senator from IL since Ev Dirksen, we would not have had to deal with Smiley O’bama today. Damn RINOs destroying our party one state at a time.